A typical project’s phases
Create the website
Projects vary widely in size, from a few static pages through to a database driven website with associated web services. The following is intended to illustrate only.
Prior to starting work
- Receive client’s requirements, or brief
- Submit quotation
Development phase
- Discuss the project in detail, refining the requirements and deliverables
- Sketch out/refine the website's structure (example website diagram (PDF))
- Receive client’s source documents for the website’s contents
- Develop mockups and/or working prototypes
- Finalise and agree the requirements and deliverables
- Refine and agree the cost estimate.
Create the website
- Write and agree the copy (if part of the work)
- Build the website, and adjust the copy now in situ
- Test the website works (with some typical records in any CMS) as desired
- Upload the website to a private area of the Web, ready for review.
Review phase
- Client reviews the “review website”
- Adjust/correct website.
- Client can now fill the CMS, if any, with data.
Publish the website, and handover (where appropriate)
- Remove the current public website and replace it with the new website
- Hand over, providing any training needed.
